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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Washington: George Strait) FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval allowing advertising claims for the cholesterol-lowering drug Pravachol for heart attack prevention examined. [Georgetown University Dr. Charles RACKLEY, University of Michigan Dr. Bertram PITTS - talk about what Pravachol can do and who should use it.] The importance of the government backing for the drug's manufacturer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, in the billion- dollar drug market noted.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Aaron Brown) Damage control by the prosecution on the seventh day of testimony by criminalist Dr. Dennis Fung in the O.J. Simpson murder trial featured; courtroom scenes shown. [Yesterday, on redirect, deputy district attorney Hank GOLDBERG - questions Fung.] [University of California at Los Angeles law school professor Peter ARENELLA - says the defense has not proven its conspiracy theory.] The efforts of the prosecution to undo the cross-examination of Fung by defense attorney Barry Scheck reviewed.
(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Cynthia McFadden) The defense's suggestion that the evidence was contaminated discussed; the points that LAPD detective Tom Lange will make about the blanket used to cover the body of Nicole Brown Simpson when he retakes the stand listed.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Bergen-Belsen: Garrick Utley) The 50th anniversary of the World War II liberation of the Nazi Bergen-Belsen concentration camp featured; 1945 film shown to illustrate conditions at the camp, including mass burials. [Former British soldier George HANKS, camp survivor John FINK - comment.] [At the camp site, American student Tim WILWERDING - talks about looking for remnants of the camp.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Alexandria, Virginia: John Donvan) New legal challenge to President Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals in the military from Navy officer Lieutenant Paul Thomasson featured; details given of Thomasson's military record and of support for him from his superiors Admirals Lee Gunn and Albert Konetzni. [THOMASSON - comments.] (Artist: William Hennessy)
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Reminder given that there is no stock market report and of the filing dates for income tax.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Income and income tax figures as released by President Clinton and his wife outlined on screen.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Official declaration from President Clinton that he will seek reelection in '96 noted.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) The beginning of Passover for Jews and Good Friday for Christians reported; scenes shown of Pope John Paul II carrying a wood cross in the processional in Rome and of pilgrims in Jerusalem retracing Christ's route to his crucifixion.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(No location given: Peggy Wehmeyer) Days of religious reconciliation decades after the violent civil rights war in Mississippi featured; scenes shown from the sites of past events in that race war while the stories of two men, one black, one white, are presented. [Former Ku Klux Klan terrorist Tom TARRANTS, black minister John PERKINS - talk about the past, today's reconciliation and their cooperation in living out the Gospel.] Tarrants' religious conversion while in prison and his life the last 18 years as a minister working with the poor noted.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) The career of actor/singer Burl Ives, who died today, featured; film clips shown.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir profiled; scenes shown of the 240-voice church choral group singing at the church in a drug-infested neighborhood in Brooklyn, NYC. [Pastor Jim CYMBALA, choir members Calvin HUNT, Roberta LANGELLA - talk about their experiences.]
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